Re: "Burn In" on TFT Display?

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From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sat Mar 07 1998 - 23:39:48 EST


On Sun, 08 Mar 98 02:43:05 +0100, Rainer Feuerstein wrote:

>
>A few minutes ago I recognized a "shadow" in the upper right corner of my display
(12.1" XGA
>TFT) that shows the Win NT controls (Min., Max. and Close Button). I only saw it
because I
>accidentally moved a window with grey background out of the upper right corner of the
>desktop.
>
>Is this really a "Burn In" like old monitors had?
>
>What can I do against that? I use my TP the whole day long and I can't run a
ScreenSaver
>while working. The Win Controls are at the same place all the time of course, since I
usually
>work with maximized windows (even then MS Visual Studio is too small...)
>
This may sound stupid, but from reading a product pamplete for some Japanese
LCD manafacturer, it said that after a while, TFT LCDs may "burn in" like CRTs,
though not as bad. A screen saver is not a bad idea, even one that just blanks out
the LCD with nothing else. I don't think this would happen with DSTN, however,
because it is displayed completely differently than TFT, which uses 3 transistors for
each pixel (red, green, blue).

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